Northcutt made his UFC debut in 2015 at lightweight winning his
first two bouts in under one minute against Francisco
Trevino and Cody
Pfister. “Super” then moved to welterweight, losing his first
professional bout to Bryan
Barberena by submission. His second fight at welterweight
didn’t go well either losing to Micky Gall also by submission.

Inside the UFC, Northcutt is 5-0 as a lightweight and 0-2 as a
welterweight, but has said the weight cut to 155 pounds is really
tough which is why he is prepared to give welterweight another
go:

“My last few fights at 155, the weight cuts [have] been really
tough, the last few pounds, my body kind of stopped sweating,”
Northcutt told James Lynch
in an interview released Sunday. I could make the weight, it’s just
I really want to go out there and put on a great show and try to
finish off my opponents. So I feel like 170 is more of a natural
weight for me, and I’m looking forward to it.”

Northcutt has said the weight cut process from his walking around
weight of 170 pounds to the 155 pound lightweight amount would take
around 30 hours and greatly affected his performance. At 170 pounds
it’s much easier:

“Before to make weight at 155, I had to walk around 170ish,”
Northcutt told Lynch. “And now, going to 170, I’m walking around at
185, 190. So hopefully, it’ll be a good weight cut. I think it’ll
be easy.”

Sage
Northcutt is scheduled to face Zak Ottow at
UFC Fight Night Boise on July 14 and will be looking to notch up
his first win in the welterweight division.